[justshutupandtakeit]

That prohibition on Congress's abridging free expression has now been extended to the States by the 14th amendment. Before then the States could and did prohibit free speech, close newspapers, etc. Try running an anti-Slavery newpaper in Charleston in 1855 and see how long it would be before it was burned out.

However, the extension of the prohibitions to the States does not mean that it applies to CNN or Fox and they have every right to exclude subjects from air time or discussion. Just as we have every right to tune them out.

[Grut]

Try running an anti-Slavery newpaper in Charleston in 1855 and see how long it would be before it was burned out.

My very remote Uncle, Isaac Knapp, published The Abolitionist and was burned out twice - in Boston!